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I subscribe to the WOAI "San Antonio news" RSS feed to get some of my local news, which inexplicably includes the "No Bull Zone"--an anonymously authored conservative opinion blog.
This is a serious journalistic oversight that I'm surprised I need to point out. Anyone who wants to read ignorant ranting of any political nature can subscribe to individual blog feeds separately. It really shouldn't be included with the rest of the reporting from an objective news organization.
There's a reason op/ed pieces have their own section in a newspaper, segregated from the objective reporting. The same rules apply on the web.
There's a reason anonymous op/ed pieces are not published by respected newspapers. The same rules apply on the web.
Especially egregious is the advertisement of this willful ignorance on the profile page for "Rob": "Rob is the blogger behind "Rob's No Bull Zone" on woai.com. All we know for sure about him is that he's United States Air Force Retired. Everything else is a mystery."
Unless, of course, WOAI isn't interested in maintaining a reputation of journalistic integrity. In that case, I'm sure there's always plenty of room at Fox News' parties.
Regards,
Travis Kroh
Update: I heard back from him already.
Thanks for the email Travis. Good point on the RSS feed. I'll get a pure news feed set up -- with no opinion included.
Bob Gambert aka CyberBob
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